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  • What to expect from the 'iPhone Fold'

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    Hank2.0 said:
    fallenjt said:
    Ver Unlikely. It’s a gimmick and pron for damage but add zero or little benefit...
    The benefit follows the principle of greater functionality with a smaller size for transporting. Isn't that the basic idea of a cell phone in the first place?
    Yes, but the limitations of tech at the time dictated the design and Apple wasn’t interested in a half assed experience that didn’t include a OS and hardware far beyond what Nokia, Sony, Palm, Blackberry, and Microsoft were capable of at the time and when it got to that point they released and crushed the big five.

    The Apple iPad prototype in 2001 was literally a brick which was completely unusable. (note the tablet design predated the iPhone Apple switched them around midstream).

    Glasses in the future will be a very big thing but not until the electronics can be hidden inside a pair of normal glasses with the power of the Apple Watch times 2.
    DAalseth

  • There are more iPhones in use in the USA than Android phones

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    Marvin said:
    JP234 said:
    My first smartphone was a Prepaid TracFone. The Android Phone/service package was cheap, but it wasn't long before I realized, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, "The bitterness of low quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

    My next phone, and my wife's as well, were iPhones. And have been ever since. And always will be. In the long term, quality always wins out.
    The quote is very fitting for Apple products. When products are used for hours every day, saving even 50% of the initial price for years of headaches just isn't worth it. Even used Apple products are better than new Android/Windows products.

    Families often hand down used iPhones/iPads to their kids and millions are being sold on eBay etc.

    The trend line looks steep. No wonder other companies put out attack ads.

    Apple is on it’s to a Japanese level marketshare in the USA with the iPhone…
    lolliverradarthekatwatto_cobra

  • AirDropped nudes nearly cancel Cabo flight

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    sdw2001 said:
    The pilot was completely out of line.  He has no authority to dictate what people can share on their phones.  The "disrupting the flight" excuse is not going to....fly. The pilot threatened to go back to the gate, like he was dealing with children.  Vacation Dad will very likely face consequences from his employer.  
    Yes he or she does once you are the plane they are the law.
    blastdoorforgot usernamewatto_cobra

  • Apple's features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone

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    zoetmb said:
    sflagel said:
    This is not a long list, and some of it is a bit daft. Not supporting headphone jack and Intel chips? Why not include: not supporting CD-ROM, 30-pin connector, VGA Port? I miss Front Row the most, and Automator.
    Everyone will miss different things that they found useful to them.    I only "accept" the loss of the headphone jack because I can use a traditional headphone with a dongle (on the iPhone).   I will not use Bluetooth earbuds, both because I don't want Bluetooth passing through my brain and because I refuse to buy any product in which the batteries can't be user replaced.  Using a device in which the rechargeable batteries eventually die and can't be replaced is both a scam and bad for the environment.   (Yes, I know it's the same in the Mac, but I have no choice there.) 

    And I actually still use CD-ROM.   I run a site that contains much audio and it's useful for some of the contributors to ship CD's rather than dropbox the large files.  Also, I have a record collection of over 2000 albums which I do not want to re-buy on Apple Music (or subscribe) and CD is a useful method of transferring them over.    

    But I completely understand people who have no use for those things.   Different strokes for different folks and all that.    

    The fact remains though that when Apple chose to remove the DVD/CD drive from the Mac, it wasn't because of declining use of that technology at the time (and Apple never supported Blu-ray, which they should have).   It was simply because Ive wanted to have a thinner case.  

    Apple getting into content, subscriptions, rentals, and getting rid of a DVD/CD read write player/record drive, fit right into steering traffic to downloads only.
    baconstang

  • Apple's features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone

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    baconstang said:
    Aperture...  the reason I'll be on Mojave until I switch to Apple Si.
    The clean Aperture UI on a 32” Apple XDR monitor wow! 
    baconstang